Hi Mark,
Our investigation of the Initial Questions portion of the submission workflow
revealed that it would require more than just editing the .xml files. And a
DSpace admin from MIT emailed me and indicated that adding new Initial
Questions would break the existing data model and would lead to problems when
upgrading DSpace. He says:
The data elements behind the answers to those two questions are maintained
values in the data model, which cause problems when items are ingested from
systems other than the online webapp, e.g. SWORD. I would advise against
altering the data model since it might lead to other problems, including
upgrading to new versions of DSpace.
With that said, if you've been able to add new Initial Questions (the default
1st submission step), how much work was it to modify the .java files and add
the database fields. I think we determined that is what would have to happen in
order to maintain persistency when a user returns to a submission left
in-progress. What type of Initial Questions have you added?
About the "Choice Control," I intended to say Choice Management or Authority
Control. I just responded to another email on this list regarding our idea for
choice management - basically it would be the same as a controlled Subject and
Keywords entry field with a "suggest" feature or drop-downs for shorter lists.
Ideally, the choices available for each type of metadata will be administrable
by a logged-in user via the Administrative interface in the XMLUI. I haven't
seen a way to do this in the default installation.
Sincerely,
Jay Clark
Application Support Specialist
Mission Aviation Fellowship
Learning Technologies Division
www.maf.org<http://www.maf.org> & www.maflt.org<http://www.maflt.org>
From: Mark Melia [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 10:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Workflows in DSpace 1.7, XMLUI
Hi Jay,
* We are interested in changing the workflow to add a few more Initial
Questions. How would one add two or three more Initial Questions to the
submission workflow?
Have a look at the input-forms.xml and item-submission.xml - here you can edit
what questions are asked when a user is submitting an item. I think these XML
config files would also be key to creating your "submit a new translation"
button.
* We plan to use Choice Control extensively throughout the metadata
entry process. We've managed to setup some sample Choice Controlled fields, but
find that the way to setup these files is cumbersome. Is there a way in the
XMLUI to edit the many Choice Control lists we may have?
How are you currently setting these up?
Thanks,
Mark
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On 25/03/11 15:47, Jay Clark wrote:
Hello,
I asked this question for the discussion of workflows in DSpace on the
dspace-general list and want to ask over here on the tech list as well. I have
several questions as I am new to DSpace.
My colleagues and I are investigating DSpace as a solution to a large
repository of digital resources to be made available for translation.
Translated resources will then be re-submitted to the Library with metadata
that indicates the translation relationship. There are future plans for the
repository to be served in multiple user interface languages. We are using
DSpace 1.7 with the XMLUI and a customized theme based on Mirage.
Here are some things we are interested in doing. We think they are
theoretically possible, but would like to find some real-world examples of how
to do them.
We are interested in changing the workflow to add a few more Initial Questions.
How would one add two or three more Initial Questions to the submission
workflow?
We would like to derive a new Item from an existing item. Ideally this would be
implemented with a "Submit a New Translation" button on an existing DSpace
Item. In the process, we want to copy some of the source Item's metadata into
the new derived Item (dc.relation information) and display some of the source
Item's metadata adjacent to the metadata entry fields so a submitter can see
the source's title and translate it appropriately into the language of the new
Item. How might this be accomplished?
We plan to use Choice Control extensively throughout the metadata entry
process. We've managed to setup some sample Choice Controlled fields, but find
that the way to setup these files is cumbersome. Is there a way in the XMLUI to
edit the many Choice Control lists we may have?
We do have more questions, but these may be the most important at the moment.
Sincerely,
Jay Clark
Application Support Specialist
Mission Aviation Fellowship
Learning Technologies Division
www.maf.org<http://www.maf.org> & www.maflt.org<http://www.maflt.org>
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